Y H& C Investments Profile Picture Investment Adviser

YH&C Investments

President,Financial Services,Y H& C Investments

  • Education UC Irvine
  • Qualifications MBA, BA, CFA
  • Investment Experience 20 years experience
  • Founded 2004

Concentrated GARP

Growth investor focusing on fundamental analysis including cash ratios, liquidity ratios and margin analysis. Also will invest in anticipation of mergers, spinoffs and arbitrage opportunities.
Growth at a reasonable price. Cash rich balance sheets. Businesses with strategic competitive advantages and high barriers to entry with enormous target markets. Proven leadership in management with skin in the game and forward looking thinkers. Spinoffs, arbitrage possibilities, but largely growth oriented businesses.
The screening approach investigates different criteria on the Balance Sheet – cash ratios, cash/debt ratios, current assets/current liabilities, liquidity ratios and cash flow ratios. In addition, margin analysis is used (ie. Gross margin, net margin, operating margin, return on assets). Sources include Barron’s, Yahoo Finance, MSN Screener, local news, Seeking Alpha, Investopedia, BusinessWeek and Bloomberg.
Positions range from 5% to 20% per allocation. If one position reaches an abnormally large percentage of assets, it will usually be trimmed in some fashion (ie. Hedging or selling).
Closing positions is based on the performance, or lack thereof, of the company. If an abnormally large gain is achieved in a short period, may be sold. If stock is grossly overvalued, it will also be sold.
If stocks are highly overvalued, merger activity, regulatory issues arise, arbitrage possibilities arise or world events occur, the strategy may change.

Risk score

4
22.1%

Best 30 days

-27.9%

Worst 30 days

Performance

  • 7.6%
    30 day
  • 2.9%
    90 day
  • 31.9%
    365 day
Monthly vs S&P500
yhc investments - concentrated garp
20.6% 12 months
  • $5,000 subscription min
  • 1.5% fee

Replicability

100.0%
  • Replicable

Top 5 Holdings View all

26.4%
25.4%
16.0%
14.9%
7.3%

Model commentary

  1. The Long Term GARP portfolio delivers in April

    20 May 2013

    Here's how the key holdings performed.

  2. Sell in May? Maybe not this year 22 April 2013
  3. Sometimes less is more when it comes to investing 26 March 2013
  4. GigaMedia is launching a cloud service and has $100 million in cash 16 March 2013
  5. The case for gold right now 13 March 2013

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Performance detail

  • Manager
  • S&P 500

Performance

Inception January 20, 2010
as of May 21, 2013 Manager S&P 500 Average Subscriber
Past 30 days 7.6% 7.3% 7.2%
Past 90 days 2.9% 10.4% 1.8%
Past 365 days 31.9% 26.8% -
Since Inception (Annualized) 2.3% 12.2% -
2013 (YTD) 11.8% 17.0% 10.2%
2012 42.2% 13.4% -
2011 -33.1% -0.0% -35.8%

Risk Metrics

Last 365 days
as of May 21, 2013 Manager S&P 500
Best 30 days 12.1% 8.2%
Worst 30 days -7.8% -7.0%
Volatility 19.7% 12.7%
Sharpe Ratio 1.61 2.11
Sortino Ratio 2.62 3.02
Maximum Drawdown -8.5% -7.7%
Value-at-risk (95%, 1 week) -4.6% -2.9%
vs. S&P 500
Information Ratio 0.31
Alpha 7.7%
Beta 0.89
R-Squared 0.33
  • $5,000 subscription min
  • 1.5% fee

Latest transactions view all

Average trades per month 0.3
Executed Symbol Security Replicable Type Price
12/28/12 BBW BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC Yes Buy $3.98
12/28/12 CSH CASH AMERICA INTL INC Yes Buy $38.72
12/11/12 BBW BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC Yes Buy $3.99
12/11/12 CSH CASH AMERICA INTL INC Yes Buy $38.80
12/05/12 GIGM GIGAMEDIA LTD Yes Sell $0.92
09/13/12 BBW BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP INC Yes Buy $4.17
02/15/12 JMBA JAMBA INC Yes Buy $1.78
02/25/11 JMBA JAMBA INC Yes Buy $2.27


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